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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Washington D.C. 1917 to 1938: The Peyote Controversy; Oklahoma's Poor Rich Indians; Tricksters.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Indian tribe lived on the reservation in #111?
(a) Ute.
(b) Cheyenne.
(c) Cherokee.
(d) Sioux.

2. Why did David lose his job at the Indian Bureau?
(a) He was late too many times.
(b) He came in drunk after lunch one day.
(c) He stole some money.
(d) The job was given to a white man.

3. Who is Tate?
(a) Gertrude's mother.
(b) A young warrior.
(c) The president's wife.
(d) A Sioux chief.

4. What did Gertrude and her friends do that the headmistress did not want them to do?
(a) Wasted their food.
(b) Picked unripe apples.
(c) Played in the snow.
(d) Flirted with the boys.

5. From which tribe did the young man in #98 come?
(a) Lakota.
(b) Sioux.
(c) Chippewa.
(d) Cheyenne.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the Indian agency where Tate and the others received their government food rations?

2. Who was the young man who became engaged to Gertrude when she returned to Pennsylvania in 1897?

3. The Ute Indians had problems with drinking and __________________.

4. In one example of how the whites swindled the Osage Indians, one woman was entitled to $15,000 a year but her white guardian gave her only __________ a week.

5. Why did Gertrude cry at the boarding school?

(see the answer key)

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